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A Nepali father and son living in Britain have added silver medals to their shared karate record, according to an October 19 report by Onlinekhabar’s London correspondent Nabin Pokharel. Adrian Chhetri, 13, and his father Gyanendra Chhetri, 52, were reported as silver medallists in their respective under 15 and under 60 categories at the fourth World Union of Martial Arts Federations championship in Crawley, England.
The report also credits them with silver in a family kata event. Published at 6:24 am Nepal time, the story concerns a competition held earlier this month, rather than medals won on October 19. Onlinekhabar describes an October 9 to 11 event period, while the organiser’s Kihapp listing identifies October 10 and 11 as the championship dates at K2 Crawley. Individual performance times are not confirmed.
Pokharel’s report says both competitors also teach karate, with Adrian a junior instructor and his father a senior instructor. Gyanendra, whose family roots are in Gokarna, Kathmandu, described plans to remain involved in coaching after retirement from his engineering career.
The family connection predates this year’s result. In a separate September 2025 report, Onlinekhabar recorded Adrian’s under 15 gold and Gyanendra’s under 60 silver at the WUMF championship staged in Crawley from September 19 to 21 that year. That earlier account identified Adrian as a pupil at Canons High School in Queensbury and described his father taking him to training before joining the activity himself.
It also recorded their participation together in family kata and Gyanendra’s earlier under 50 gold. These are historical achievements, not additional medals from the October 2026 event. The 2025 profile described evening practice after school, illustrating the sustained routine behind a competition appearance. It also placed Gyanendra’s sporting interests alongside his work as a senior engineer at Transport for London and his songwriting.
Read alongside the latest report, that background gives the achievement a specifically family and diaspora dimension: a child’s training became an activity shared across generations. As analysis, the continuity between the two reports is more informative than treating a medal photograph as an isolated moment, because it documents participation across successive seasons without implying an uninterrupted sequence of victories.
The event’s own published information helps define what the result represents. Its Kihapp page names ERSKF Karate Federation as host and describes WUMF as the World Union of Martial Arts Federations. The invitation was open to clubs and federations, including both members and nonmembers. Organisers advertised more than 140 karate categories, with separate entry arrangements for individual events, masters kata, pairs and teams.
The programme lists kata, kumite, team kumite, team rotation, masters kata and pairs kata, among other divisions. That breadth matters when reading a headline about world championship medals: awards are attached to particular competition categories, rather than a single overall title covering every entrant. The Chhetris’ reported individual silvers and family result should therefore retain their category descriptions.
Neither the report nor the event listing establishes an overall Nepal team ranking from their performances, and this article does not add their medals to a national delegation tally. For readers in Nepal, the verified connection is a family with Nepali roots participating in an international martial arts event in England.
Their story combines repeat competition with a continuing involvement in instruction, while keeping the October 19 publication date distinct from the earlier championship weekend.
Source publication date: 2026-10-19. Event or reporting period: 2026-10-10 to 2026-10-11 competition dates; news report published 2026-10-19.
Sources:Nabin Pokharel, Onlinekhabar, October 19 at 06:24 NPT; new medal report and original featured photograph · Onlinekhabar, September 2025 report; previous medals and family background, not new 2026 results · ERSKF Karate Federation championship listing on Kihapp; undated organiser information and October 10 to 11 competition dates
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